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israel is a friend that we will always be there for. proud to support the agreement that we have with them, making sure that they are prepared to defend themselves, just about $3 billion a year and 70% of it is spent right here. i think it is important with iran that we keep a very solid and solidified front with our friends overseas too. war is in no one's interest. it is not in israel's interest and it is not in our interest. we need uniformity and to have the sanctions work. >> moderator: forty-five seconds, mr. schriebman. we have a special relationship with israel? schriebman: we do. as the congressman and i discussed at our last debate, when we are having such a sharp disagreement, it is important to pause and recognize that we do have areas of agreement. what the congressman has said about israel, i would echo those sentiments. we have a good, strong relationship there and there are good reasons for having that relationship. it's a democratic tradition of israel and a powerful ally that they have done for us in that region. >> mo
israel is a friend that we will always be there for. proud to support the agreement that we have with them, making sure that they are prepared to defend themselves, just about $3 billion a year and 70% of it is spent right here. i think it is important with iran that we keep a very solid and solidified front with our friends overseas too. war is in no one's interest. it is not in israel's interest and it is not in our interest. we need uniformity and to have the sanctions work. >>...
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during his term, the president has not visited israel once. the jewish commercially -- community -- we feel he doesn't have our back. romney has made a strong point that he will have our back. host: did romney's relationship with the jewish community come up? guest: as a candidate he talks about the fact that he has a personal relationship dating back to time and harvard with ande minister aniston netanyahu that will be benefit. he said the united states position towards israel will be complete support. it was not clear how he would respond if israel tried to take out nuclear facilities in iraq. i think republicans feel they have made some headway, particularly in florida with jewish voters. we will see. host: brian mooney has covered politics in massachusetts for decades. he has been with "the boston globe" since 1988 and has been a political columnist. right now he goes by the title reporter. a story you did last year when health care was a big issue. looking back on the health-care issue, you recall that he went to get his official portrait
during his term, the president has not visited israel once. the jewish commercially -- community -- we feel he doesn't have our back. romney has made a strong point that he will have our back. host: did romney's relationship with the jewish community come up? guest: as a candidate he talks about the fact that he has a personal relationship dating back to time and harvard with ande minister aniston netanyahu that will be benefit. he said the united states position towards israel will be complete...
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of tacit compliance if not friendship with israel's existence a pattern that didn't escape israel should get used to a different middle east for all means and. i think that the most important thing is that barak. coming to the fore of the muslim brothers it is definitely definitely much more difficult middle east for israel sprouts of the revolutionary spirits which took over the region appear to have shot up even in places considered by israel here in the golan heights some twenty thousand consider themselves syrian their home country is just across the road has a daily reminder of the home they have lost and though it may be in the grips of a civil war many of them with gladly make their home in a stable syria rather than an israel golan heights where annexed by israel during the six day war with syria forty five years ago though the current unrest in syria is viewed differently by residents of this village they are united by one thought. israel is a stable country but we in our historic you are part of the syrian nation and it's our culture we want to be on the syrian authority even u
of tacit compliance if not friendship with israel's existence a pattern that didn't escape israel should get used to a different middle east for all means and. i think that the most important thing is that barak. coming to the fore of the muslim brothers it is definitely definitely much more difficult middle east for israel sprouts of the revolutionary spirits which took over the region appear to have shot up even in places considered by israel here in the golan heights some twenty thousand...
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and israel you know the u.s. supported israel in imposing a harsh economic sanctions regime on gaza so again we're seeing this this unfortunate balance. it's thomas caruthers word balance between security interests and economic interests and the interests of democracy and human rights and i just want to you know i don't know why that should be acceptable i mean let's think about this on a single country scale what if we had a president who said well allow democracy you people to have your rights so long as you don't threaten any of my interests in my power and we wouldn't accept that here and i don't know why people in saudi arabia should accept it i don't know why people in honduras should accept that i don't know why people in iraq should should accept that you mention iraq just if i can finish briefly you know we went in there waxing lyrical about democracy promotion as we do in almost all of our interventions and what we saw was we deposed a dictator who by the way we formally supported and then we helped bri
and israel you know the u.s. supported israel in imposing a harsh economic sanctions regime on gaza so again we're seeing this this unfortunate balance. it's thomas caruthers word balance between security interests and economic interests and the interests of democracy and human rights and i just want to you know i don't know why that should be acceptable i mean let's think about this on a single country scale what if we had a president who said well allow democracy you people to have your...
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we need our commitment to foreign poll to israel. israel is our strongest ally. it is our sister country and we need to do everything we can to fulfill our commitment. which incidentally all the foreign aid we give israel, military aid is spent right here in america on american jobs. that is one of the requirements. but when you look broadly at the arab spring, there was a lot of hope this would continue deepak civil we're falling into what has become not secular governments but religious governments. we need to be gathering up all of our allies and we need to be making a firm statement that this region needs to be stablized and we need to protect people that serve in our state departments. we knee people that serve in all facets, whether ngos or the state department. if we can't secure them, they shouldn't be there. >> moderator: can begin cross talk on this. >> i would like to redirect it back to representative berg. you spoke regarding a few specific things but what would you say should be the basic guiding principles, speaking about more broadly? what should
we need our commitment to foreign poll to israel. israel is our strongest ally. it is our sister country and we need to do everything we can to fulfill our commitment. which incidentally all the foreign aid we give israel, military aid is spent right here in america on american jobs. that is one of the requirements. but when you look broadly at the arab spring, there was a lot of hope this would continue deepak civil we're falling into what has become not secular governments but religious...
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is within reason to think these violent organization to have declared they want the destruction of israel and the united states, the obama administration did not listen or pay attention. a tragedy ensued. we members that to ask tough questions. >> i will allow you each to make a closing statement. we will begin with the challenger. >> thank you. our country is on a train wreck, a fiscal train wreck. we have to stop it before it happens. if we do not deal with that it will deal with us. we have seen that michele bachmann has been in congress for six years. it should not be able to curb the cost curve. should not been able to stop the spiraling of the debt. i'm a business person that will make things happen. i will be fiscally conservative and make this congress work into the heavy lifting. we're not going to raise taxes on the middle-class. >> you have 30 seconds. >> i want to say what it on your id is to represent new. -- an honor it has been to represent you. my focus has been on creating millions of high-paying jobs and turning our economy around. i am a former federal tax lawyer. and a
is within reason to think these violent organization to have declared they want the destruction of israel and the united states, the obama administration did not listen or pay attention. a tragedy ensued. we members that to ask tough questions. >> i will allow you each to make a closing statement. we will begin with the challenger. >> thank you. our country is on a train wreck, a fiscal train wreck. we have to stop it before it happens. if we do not deal with that it will deal with...
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ericson: all right, my top issue is that there's all this controversy about whether or not israel is going to go to war with iran. and when president obama spoke about the big yellow bird, i don't think he was talking about the big yellow bird, i think he was talking, you know, big bird on tv, i think he was talking about china. china, you know, chinese people, oriental people are referred to as yellow. china has the largest population on earth, a billion people. they have so many people that they force women to have abortions. they have no respect for human life at all. and china is friends with iran. china is trading partners with iran. if we help israel go to war with iran, then we're going to have to deal with an angry china, and i think that's a really big problem, and we have to just put a stop to it and negotiate peace. >> well, as i said in the opening statement that, um, i really feel that our biggest problem is the deficit, but i believe that the reason why we haven't been able to, um, to lower the national debt is because our political system is broken. and we need to fix
ericson: all right, my top issue is that there's all this controversy about whether or not israel is going to go to war with iran. and when president obama spoke about the big yellow bird, i don't think he was talking about the big yellow bird, i think he was talking, you know, big bird on tv, i think he was talking about china. china, you know, chinese people, oriental people are referred to as yellow. china has the largest population on earth, a billion people. they have so many people that...